Trademark Searches & Registration of Trademarks

- Patents - Copyrights - Trademarks - Inventions -
Michael Kroll, Registered Patent Attorney and Degreed Engineer
Professional staff available 24 hours, 7 days a week by phone. We are always open.

phone: 800-367-7774 fax: 800-367-7999 email: patent@invention.net

Welcome to the website of Registered Patent Attorney, Michael I. Kroll. (degreed engineer with over 36 years of combined patent and engineering experience) We specialize in providing intellectual property legal services to individual inventors and small businesses. We currently have over 1400+ patents to our credit which cover all areas of science and technology.

Visit our "Submit Your Invention" page to learn more about our confidential disclosure options. If you chose to submit your invention online you will receive a free patentability opinion and price quote. Another option is to Click Here to request our FREE BROCHURE by mail which includes a signed Confidential Disclosure, Record of Invention and free patent information. On receipt of a rough sketch, photo, or description of your invention, we will send you at no charge copies of related patents that we have prepared for our clients. All information received is kept strictly confidential.

Trademark Services Offered
By Patent Attorney Michael Kroll

Areas Covered: sources of goods or services
Typical Items That May Be Protected: names, logos, designs, etc.
Duration of Trademark: 10 years
Area of Coverage: Country of filing
Renewable: Yes

Credit Cards Accepted. Open 24 hours per day.

Phone: 1-800-INVENT-8 or 1-800-367-7774 or (516) 367-7777
Fax:--- 1-800-INVENT-9 or 1-800-367-7704 or (516) 367-7776 or (516) 692-2787
Mobile Phone: 1-800-367-7999 or 1-800-367-7779 or (516) 313-4428
E-mail: patent@invention.net (If requesting our brochure, please provide your name, mailing address and phone number since these materials are too large to e-mail or fax).
Mailing Address:
Michael Kroll, Registered Patent Attorney
171 Stillwell Lane
Syosset, New York 11791
U.S. Patent Registration # 26,755. Associates Located Near The U.S. Patent Office. We serve a Worldwide client base.

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Types of Intellectual Property

	Utility Patent (functional)(1)(2)(3)	Design Patent (appearance)	Copyrights	Trademarks
	Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter or any new and useful improvement thereof may obtain a patent	Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter or any new and useful improvement thereof may obtain a patent	Artistic works that typically appeal to the senses such as sight and sound	Source of goods or services
Typical items that may be protected	tools, devices, machines, computer programs, games, processes, formulas, internet, electronic, chemical and business methods etc.	shapes of articles, dolls, characters, etc.	books, dolls, plays, poems, sculpures, paintings, photographs, computer programs, written materials, etc.	names, logos, designs, etc.
Duration of protection	20 years from filing	14 years from filing	Life of author plus 50 years	10 years
Area of coverage	Country of filing	Country of filing	Worldwide	Country of filing
Renewable	No	No	No	Yes

(1) Amendments, if required, and printing and issue fee are additional.
(2) Maintenance fees due at 3, 7 & 11 years after issue of utility patent.
(3) Internet, electronic, chemical and business methods are normally higher.

**U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Registration Of Internet Domain Names By Michael Kroll, Registered Patent Attorney**

With the possible implementation of 7 additional top level domain names and the possible further creation of new top level domains, it is more important than ever to obtain Federal Trademark protection of a domain name in order to protect a valuable asset. The 7 new proposed top level domains are:

.FIRM - for businesses, or firms
.SHOP - for businesses offering goods to purchase
.WEB - for entities emphasizing activities related to the WWW
.ARTS - for entities emphasizing cultural and entertainment activities
.REC - for entities emphasizing recreation/entertainment activities
.INFO - for entities providing information services
.NOM - for those wishing individual or personal nomenclature

Obtaining a trademark will help in preventing others from using the same or very similar domain name, if for example they simply try to substitute .firm for .com.

Additionally, it will help to prevent confusion and dilution of a valuable domain name. The interplay between domain names and Federal Trademarks is in its infancy and the governing law is not as clear as it will be in a few years.

Accordingly, to insure that proper Federal Trademark protection was obtained, all five of the above were registered as US Trademarks.

It is submitted that the most important and possibly the only necessary trademark is "Invention", but since there are diverse opinions as to which ones should be registered, all five were obtained.

Credit Cards Accepted. Open 24 hours per day.

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Registration Of Internet Domain Names By Michael Kroll, Registered Patent Attorney

For more information E-mail us at patent@invention.net

**U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Registration Of Internet Domain Names By Michael Kroll, Registered Patent Attorney**